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> some government agency divided the ‘allowable’ levels of these chemicals by 40 million

That's one way to put it, yes. Another way is that recent scientific studies have shown these chemicals are way more harmful than we once thought. Should we not adjust recommendations accordingly? Seems rather obvious and undeserving of a "Wut?".

How bad is bad? Check out how they calculate the HA values here: https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2022-06/technical...



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